The trouble with Rhodes is, it’s got too many orators and not enough engineers. - L. Sprague de Camp

One man’s wickedness becomes all men’s curse.

“We are a law abiding folk, sir. We do not permit private persons to indulge their feuds on their own, and we have some most ingenious penalties for homicide.”
“Mean ye,” said Jillo, “that amongst you Pathenians, a gentleman may not avenge an insult by the gage of battle?”
“Of course not! We are not bloodthirsty barbarians.”
“Ye mean there are no true gentlemen amongst you,” sniffed Jillo.

But your loss of honor—”
“Honor is a subjective, intangible loss. Therefore our laws take no cognizance of it.